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Employment Outcomes

The University of St. Thomas School of Law is the “gold standard.” Over the past four years, St. Thomas saw an average of more than 90% of graduates employed within 10 months of graduation in full-time jobs for which bar passage is required or where having a J.D. is a significant advantage. With our individualized career support and tools to help you build your professional network, we’ll provide you with the tools to get to where you want to be.

91%

The Class of 2025 had a 91.28% Gold-standard Employment rate.

State and Local Clerkships
(The Princeton Review, 2025)

Top20

Minneapolis is among the top 20 cities for young attorneys
(National Jurist, 2022)

Annual Employment Outcomes

The Office of Career and Professional Development captures employment data from its recent graduates through employment surveys and personal outreach. The 91.28% employment rate for the class of 2025 counts only “gold standard” positions that are full-time, long-term and either require a law license or where having a J.D. provides a significant advantage to performing or obtaining the role. Some law schools include other professional or non-professional jobs, as well as short-term, part-time, and delayed-start positions in their employment rate. We do not include such positions in our employment rate because we believe our students enter law school with the intent of pursuing full-time gold standard positions.

Information from the annual survey is used to report to various agencies, including the American Bar Association (ABA), National Association of Legal Career Professionals (NALP) and the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR).

Please reference the 3 years of employment outcome data posted on the ABA Required Disclosures webpage of each ABA-Approved Law School or on the ABA's website.

ABA and NALP Reports

These reports are generated by the ABA and by NALP based on confidential and anonymous employment information collected by the Office of Career & Professional Development. Any identifying information (i.e., employment data with small sample sizes) is removed from the NALP employment summary reports.